\Sbv^^i>v .'^^\e ./>■ 



\< 



Things You Should 
Know About 




SOME OF THE BROOD PONDS 



The Kansas State 
Fish and Game Department 

PRATT, KANSAS 
uiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiniiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiniiiiiiim^^^ 



THE LOCATION 






nr^HE HOME of the Kansas Fish and Game Department is at 
-■■ Pratt, Pratt county, where the state owns 187 acres of land 
on which there are ninety-seven ponds for rearing fish; also 
seven dwellings for the warden and his nine employees, an office 
and aquarium building, power house, barns, ice house, fish house, 
tools and equipment. The whole plant is in splendid physical 
condition, beautifully located, and an institution of which Kansans 
may justly feel proud. Grounds and buildings are electric hghted. 
The institution could not be reproduced to-day for less than 
$300,000. 

A splendid aquarium containing all the native Kansas fish is 
maintained. 

Game birds may be seen in the rearing pens and a deer park is 
almost completed. 

Visitors are welcome at the State Fish Hatchery. A swimming 
pool is open to the pubUc and patronized by thousands. Pic- 
nickers are always present. As many as 240 automobiles loaded 
with people have visited the hatchery in one day. 

The hatchery is two and a half miles east and one mile south 
of Pratt. It is one mile south of the ''Cannon Ball" highway. 



LIBRARY OF CONGRESS 

MAYEB 192- 

DOCUMENTS L/iVi^lON 






^ 






HOW YOU MAY SECURE FISH, GAME 
BIRDS AND EGGS 



THERE is no charge for anything supplied by this department. 
What it has and its services are absolutely free to the people of 
Kansas. In sending out game birds for stocking, we expect the 
applicant to pay the express on the birds and to return the basket. 

Anyone having living water may obtain sufficient young fish to 
stock same by applying to the department on a form which we 
will furnish. 

We stock private as well as public waters. We give the number 
and kinds of fish which your description indicates will be best 
adapted to your water. 

The same is true of birds and eggs. They are supplied on 
application, free to those having suitable food and cover, up to 
our limit. We never have enough. 

We issue bulletins from time to time, of especial interest to 
hunters and of interest to the public generally. If you would 
like to receive them, ask that your name- be placed on our mail- 
ing list. We shall be glad to send them. If you wish to know 
about fish culture or how to build a good fish pond, ask for 
bulletin No. 1. Copies of the game laws are sent on request. 
We have printed instructions for rearing pheasants, notes about 
fur farming and much other information about conservation of 
wild life, which will be sent on request. 

Address: 

State Fish and Game Department, 
PRATT, KANSAS. 



DON'T SHOOT 



1. Don't shoot or trap more than the natural increase of the 

game in your cover. Your brood stock will soon be wiped 
out if you do. 

2. Don't shoot more than the legal limit in any one day, nor 

that many if you cannot use them. 

3. Don't shoot for your friend's table. Let him kill his own 

birds. 

4. Don't shoot mated or nesting birds. It is equivalent to 

taking a setting hen off the nest and putting her in the pot, 

5. Don't shoot before the season opens, nor after it closes. 

6. Don't shoot the farmer's poultry or stock. He will then not 

have to post his land against you. 

7. Don't shoot yourself or your companion or at anything else 

until you know exactly what you are shooting at. 

8. Don't 'SHOOT unless you have a hunter's license. One fine 

will pay your annual license for a hfetime. 

9. Don't shoot from an automobile or along a public road. The 

first is unsportsmanlike, the second dangerous. 

10. Don't shoot the game warden. He is only doing his duty. 



m 




Here is visible proof of what can be done with fish in a made 
lake. The lake from which this fish was taken was made by 
damming an ordinary Kansas slough and stocking the impounded 
water with fish from the State Fish Hatchery. Thousands of 
fish are caught each year in this lake. It is also one of the best 
duck lakes in the state. 



'TpHE Kansas Fish and Game Department does not cost the 
-•- taxpayers of this state one cent. It is supported entirely 
from the hunters' Hcense fee of $1 annually. Individual land- 
owners and their families may hunt on their own land without 
license. 

Not only does it not cost the taxpayer anything, but it paid 
into the general revenue fund of the state in the last fiscal year 
about $3,500, for under our law five per cent of the gross receipts 
of the department are diverted into the state treasury to pay for 
printing, legal advice and the department's share of the running 
expense of the state. In the same period, the state school fund 
was enriched to the amount of $3,104 from fines paid by violators 
of the fish and game laws whom this department convicted. 

It places annually into the waters of the state about 500,000 
fish, and if it were not for the restocking done by this department, 
there would be very few fish in Kansas waters to-day. 

It distributed last year 664 bobwhite quail, 72 blue quail and 
300 pheasants for stocking the covers of the state. 

Two thousand pheasant and 180 mallard duck eggs were dis- 
tributed to be hatched, the birds reared and liberated. 

Six hundred and six persons were convicted of violating the fish 
and game laws and 179 illegal devices for taking fish were seized 
and destroyed in the last year. 



imi 




Pheasants reared on the grounds of the State Fish Hatchery. 



pHEASANTS are sent out in the fall only. We use young 
-*• birds for stocking. Pheasant eggs are sent in the spring. 
Both on applications only. If interested, write for proper blanks. 
Applications are filled in the order they are received, all being 
equal. 

Quail are sent out in the spring only. No eggs. The rearing 
of quail in pens is no job for an amateur. 

We never have enough birds or eggs to go round. We supply 
all we can. 



IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIilllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllillllllllillllllllllllllllllllH 



ORGANIZATION 



Every county in the state should have one or more good hve 
sportsmen's organizations whose first tenet should be the en- 
forcement of the Kansas game laws and next the dissemination 
of the principles of true conservation. The doctrine of true 
sportsmanship, of a square deal. Such clubs could educate people 
to abhor the taking of an unfair advantage of our little wild 
friends. To kill mated or nesting birds is a crime. This should 
be brought to the realization and burned into the consciousness 
of all. 

The doctrine of "saving some for seed" needs wide pybhcity in 
Kansas, as does the necessity of providing food and cover for our 
birds. 

The right of the farmer to forbid hunting on his land should be 
recognized and more generally respected. Moderation in kilhng 
and a recognition of the principle of kilHng only the annual in- 
crease could be fostered and finally become the governing rule 
with sportsmen if such clubs were in evidence and would fulfill 
their mission. Other states have them, why not Kansas? 

They would also be of great help to this department in se- 
curing just legislation and greatly facilitate its labor in the dis- 
tribution of game birds and eggs for restocking. Such stocking 
would be more effective if managed by local bodies, as they 
would know local conditions as the department cannot know them. 
I appeal to every man who loves to hunt and fish to organize a 
sportsman's club in your neighborhood. 



9-4045 



UBRARV OF 



CONGRESS 



;!! II' '.C*',-'^! 



li \\ W I i\ \ I I I 1 1 I I I I III "" ' 

002 899 514 30 




